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WWII
Flashcards from the WWII section
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nagasaki Bomb? | August 9,1945, kills 70,000 instantly |
| Battle of the Bulge? | Allies surround Germany, German counterattack in 1944, Germans forced to retreat |
| Nonagression pact? | Stalin and Hitler agree to invade Poland together |
| What countries do the Soviets take? | Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Finland, but met by oppression |
| Battle of Britain? | Battle that demonstrated Hitler's attacks could be blocked, Hitler is shocked at resistance so he calls off attacks |
| Maginot Line? | A system of fortifications along France's border with Germany |
| Luftwaffe? | Name for Germany's air force |
| Nuremberg Laws? | Laws that deprived Jews of rights in 1935 |
| Germany surrenders? | Germans surrounded, Hitler commits suicide, May 9, 1945, Roosevelt succeeded by Truman |
| D-Day? | June 6, 1944, operation overlord, invasion of France, allies capture Normandy beaches, Paris liberated |
| What groups were considered inferior? | Gypsies, Slavs, Poles, Russians, handicapped, homosexuals, Free Masons, Jehovah's witnesses |
| What was the turning point in North Africa? | When British General Montgomery attacked at El Alamein and pushed Rommel back, Rommel defeated in 1943 |
| Nuremberg Trails? | 22 Nazi leaders put on trial for war crimes |
| Battle of Guadalcanal? | Allied victory |
| What do the British use against the Germans? | Air force, radar, code-breaking |
| Kristallnacht? | Night of the Broken Glass, Nazi stormtroopers attack Jews, turning-point for Germans |
| Holocaust? | The systematic mass killing of Jews and other "inferior" groups |
| What stops German forces in Russia? | Long seige as Leningrad, harsh winter conditions in Moscow |
| Battle of the Coral Sea? | May 1942, Americans stop Japanese, U.S. introduce ships with planes |
| Battle of Midway? | Japanese send powerful fleet to capture Midway Islands, U.S. destroys Japan's navy, turning-point for U.S. |
| Erwin Rommel? | Commander of Hitler's crack German tank force the Afrika Korps, beats British in Africa |
| When does Japan attack Peal Harbor? | December 7, 1941 |
| Dunkirk? | French port city near Belgium from which a fleet of British ships and civilian crafts evacuated trapped soldiers |
| Ghettos? | Segregated areas in cities for Jews |
| 3 phases of Nazi terror? | Restriction and Segregation, Expulsion and Exclusion, extermination |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower? | American commander in Morocco |
| What causes Isoroku Yamamato to plan an attack? | Roosevelt cuts off oil shipments to Japan |
| War in U.S.? | 17-18 million workers make weapons, shortage of consumer good, propaganda, Japanese Americans face prejudice |
| Turning point for allies? | Battle of Stalingrad-German troops surrender after they capture city |
| Winston Churchill? | British prime minister during WWII, vows to never surrender |
| Hiroshima bomb? | August 6, 1945, kills 75,000 |
| Manhattan Project? | Secret program to develop an atomic bomb |
| Final Solution? | Hitler's long-term plan, program for Jews, genocide |
| Lend-lease act? | U.S. loans weapons to other countries fighting Germany |
| Charles de Gaulle? | French general who organized the Free French military forces to fight the Nazis |
| War in Japan? | Allies move to take Philippines, Battle of Leyte Gulf damages Japanese navy |
| Kamikaze? | Japanese pilots who fly suicide missions |
| What was the Phoney War? | Britain and France declare war on Germany but nothing happens the first few months |
| Atlantic Charter? | Agreement between Roosevelt and Churchill that upheld free trade among nations and the people's rights to choose their own government |
| Douglas MacArthur? | American commander in the Pacific who invented "island-hopping" to attack weak Japan bases |
| Blitzkrieg? | Germany's military strategy of "lighting war" |
| What else does Japan do? | Attack U.S., take Phillippines, capture British holding, conquer Dutch East Indies, capture Burma, abuse prisoners of war |
| Nazis? | German political party that claimed Aryans as master race |
| American Policy? | Want to avoid war, want to strengthen allies, use oceans to protect themselves |
| When do the Nazis invade Poland? | September 1, 1939 |
| Key ideas of Mein Kampf? | Germans are master race, terror will succeed, Hitler was the savior, a pure race is a good race, strong will dominate |
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